[Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

Giuseppe D'Angelo dangelog at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 05:03:28 CET 2011


2011/11/23 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> Question: where does it get its Unicode tables from? Are they compiled in, or
> does it link to another library, such as ICU?
>
> Here, my libpcre links to nothing but libc.

Same here. They're internal tables, f.i. pcre_ucd.c
http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc/code/trunk/pcre_ucd.c?revision=592&view=markup

Since they're used for Unicode case insensitive matching (as well as
Unicode properties) we can't avoid paying for their size...

Cheers,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo



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